Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift fo neceffary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ex- change for the prebend which he defired him to refign . With ...
... pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift fo neceffary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ex- change for the prebend which he defired him to refign . With ...
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... pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whofe whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year for her life . With these Ladies he passed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened 2 his 16 - S. W IF T. his bofom ; but S WIF T. 15 %
... pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whofe whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year for her life . With these Ladies he passed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened 2 his 16 - S. W IF T. his bofom ; but S WIF T. 15 %
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... pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted after- wards a draught of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he re- figned , as he fays himself , multa gemens , with many a groan . and his ...
... pounds from Lord Oxford ; but he accepted after- wards a draught of a thousand upon the Exchequer , which was intercepted by the Queen's death , and which he re- figned , as he fays himself , multa gemens , with many a groan . and his ...
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... pounds was offered for difco- very of the author . From this ftorm he was , as he relates , fecured by a fleight ; of what kind , or by whofe prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that the Scottish ...
... pounds was offered for difco- very of the author . From this ftorm he was , as he relates , fecured by a fleight ; of what kind , or by whofe prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that the Scottish ...
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Samuel Johnson. obtained a patent empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very inconvenient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo ...
Samuel Johnson. obtained a patent empowering him to coin one hundred and eighty thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very inconvenient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo ...
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affiftance afterwards becauſe Beggar's Opera Broome cenfured church confidered converfation criticiſm deanery death defire Delany diction dili Dublin Dunciad eafily Engliſh eſtabliſhed fafe faid fame fatire fays fchools fecond feems feized feldom fent fervant ferved feven fhew fhould fince firft firſt folicitations fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftate ftory ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently funk fupped fuppofed fure himſelf honour houfe houſe Iliad increaſed inftruction intereft Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters Lord Orrery mafter meaſure moſt muſt neceffary never obferves occafion Orrery paffed paffion Paftoral perfuaded Philips Pitt pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope pounds praiſe prefent princeſs profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſe reader reafon refolution Reſtoration rienced ſeems ſome Spence Spenfer Swift Tatler tences Theocritus thofe THOMAS PARNELL thoſe thought tion told tranflation univerfally uſe verfes verſes vifit Whigs whofe write written wrote